[Given the work week, Heather has not had a chance to really enjoy the snow that much. Whether the Pokemon world celebrates Christmas the same way most 'normal' ones do is up for debate, but one thing is clear: holiday shopping is universal. The Department Store has been going absolutely insane with gaudy decorations and increasingly-frenzied ( Read more... )

[It's a little before sun-up-- that weird hour of the morning where the sky is still dark but just starting to brighten in a thin, pale line at the horizon. Of course, where Heather was, that horizon was hidden by the trees, so it's... still mostly dark ( Read more... )

[ooc: Forward-dated to the wee hours of the morning, around 3:00 or 4:00.]

[So she'd been having some problems with fire lately, and it had been rattling her nerves. That was normal, right? This was normal ( Read more... )

[The camera comes on with grass obscuring half the screen-- it was quite literally just dumped on the ground along with most of the other contents of Heather's bag-- such as the Hoothoot that was currently rolling away across the ground in a generally dismayed manner ( Read more... )